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Security breach at IGI:Drunk man enters scaling wall

Posted in General by Peter on the February 27th, 2010

Security breach at IGI:Drunk man enters scaling wall

New Delhi, Feb 27 (PTI) In a security breach, a naked man, allegedly in an inebriated condition, managed to come near a runway after jumping over the periphery wall of the IGI airport here, forcing an aircraft to abort landing.

The incident happened at around 8 pm last evening, when 33-year-old Arun Rai, a resident of Bihar’s Begusarai district, was found near the new runway 29 at a time when an aircraft from Hyderabad was about to land, a senior airport official said.

This forced the air traffic controller to ask the aircraft to abort landing.

Rai was apprehended and was handed over to Delhi Police for interrogation.

At present, he is staying with his brother in Rajnagar locality of Gurgaon. According to sources, police has taken Rai to Gurgaon to ascertain the facts.

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